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Michelangelo Antonioni

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Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.


— Michelangelo Antonioni


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Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.


— Michelangelo Antonioni


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We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.


— Michelangelo Antonioni


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When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.


— Michelangelo Antonioni


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When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.


— Michelangelo Antonioni


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You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.


— Michelangelo Antonioni


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About Michelangelo Antonioni

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Did you know about Michelangelo Antonioni?

In 1994 he was given the Honorary Academy Award "in recognition of his place as one of the cinema's master visual stylists. Although it dealt with the challenging theme of the impossibility of objective standards and the ever-doubtable truth of memory it was a successful and popular hit with audiences no doubt helped by its sex scenes which were explicit for the time.

He produced "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" and rejected action in favor of contemplation focusing on image and design over character and story. Michelangelo Antonioni Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian film director screenwriter editor and short story writer.

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